Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 25, 2014 - NASA has taken another step in its Journey to Mars. Jim Watzin has been named the new director for the agency's Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Watzin, whose duties beg
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 20, 2014 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has completed a reconnaissance walkabout of the first outcrop it reached at the base of the mission's destination mountain and has begun a second pass examining selecte
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2014 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards Marathon Valley, a putative location for abundant clay minerals about a mile (1.4 kilometers) to the south. The rover has b
Denver CO (SPX) Nov 19, 2014 - Lockheed Martin has started the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase for NASA's InSight Mars lander spacecraft. The InSight mission will record the first-ever measurements of the interi
Beijing (AFP) Nov 18, 2014 - Chinese scientists are planning to launch a Mars rover around 2020, state media reported Tuesday, as the country pours billions into its space programme and works to catch up with the US and Europe.
Providence, R.I. (UPI) Nov 18, 2014 - With the growing variety of samples collected and measurements made by NASA's Mars rovers, the scientific evidence that water once flowed freely on the surface of the Red Planet has mounted.
Providence RI (SPX) Nov 17, 2014 - Ample evidence of ancient rivers, streams, and lakes make it clear that Mars was at some point warm enough for liquid water to flow on its surface. While that may conjure up images of a tropical Mar
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 17, 2014 - NASA's InSight mission has begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase of its development, on track for a March 2016 launch to Mars. The lander, its aeroshell and cruise stage are be
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 14, 2014 - Weather, which changes day-to-day due to constant fluctuations in the atmosphere, and climate, which varies over decades, are familiar. More recently, a third regime, called macroweather, has been
Paris (AFP) Nov 13, 2014 - Europe's robot lab Philae was working well on the surface of its host comet, though likely perched on a steep slope, ground controllers said a day after the probe made its historic landing.
Zhuhai, China (XNA) Nov 12, 2014 - After successfully putting the Jade Rabbit lunar rover on the moon, Chinese space experts say the country's planned Mars vehicle will be larger, tougher and a better climber. On Tuesday, a r
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 11, 2014 - Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a putative location for abundant clay minerals about a mile (1.6 kilometers) to the south. The rover has c
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 11, 2014 - The newest node in NASA's Mars telecommunications network - a radio aboard the MAVEN orbiter custom-designed for data links with robots on the surface of Mars - handled a copious 550 megabits duri
Ames IO (SPX) Nov 11, 2014 - A comet whizzes closely by Mars, and the tail of cosmic dust in its wake penetrates the Martian upper atmosphere and produces a new dense layer of ionization in its wake, essentially a new ionospher
Washington (AFP) Nov 07, 2014 - Last month, an exotic deep space comet flew by Mars and unleashed an unexpectedly strong meteor shower that briefly changed the chemistry of the Red Planet's upper atmosphere, NASA said Friday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 06, 2014 - Reddish rock powder from the first hole drilled into a Martian mountain by NASA's Curiosity rover has yielded the mission's first confirmation of a mineral mapped from orbit. This connects us
